Lieberman: What's Not to Like?

Al Gore's running mate has set himself apart from his party. If only he were more of a fighter.

By

SETH LIPSKY

Updated Aug. 9, 2000 11:59 p.m. ET

My wife, then a member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal, voted for George Bush in 1992 and Bob Dole in 1996. I was editor of the Jewish Forward during those years, and I voted for Bill Clinton both times. I explained this by saying that my wife and I had decided to put our newspapers ahead of our country.

There was slightly more to it than that, of course. One of the editorial tasks I had set for myself was nursing, in however modest a way one can with a small-circulation weekly, the pre-McGovernite, Scoop...